The Glory Of God (Moses and Exodus 33) (Leonard Ravenhill)

okay let's look at the book of Exodus chapter 34 or maybe let's see I'll go back a minute they're into chapter 33 sorry now here's Moses talking let's go to verse 12 and Moses said unto the Lord in that lovely it means he's sitting and having a conversation with the Lord not with an archangel or some other being but with the Lord the Lord we sang about tonight immortal invisible God only wise and that man talks with God in verse 12 Moses said unto the Lord see thou sayst unto me bring up this people and thou us not let me know whom thou wilt send with me yet thou has said I know thee by name I know thee by name and that thou hast also found grace in my sight now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight show me now thy way that I may know thee that I may find grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people and he God said my presence shall go with thee and I will give the rest now if you wonder what rested it's answered for in that verse rest is the presence of God never being afraid knowing he's with us is guaranteed he'll never leave us or forsake us and because of that we have rest we can lean back as it were on God my presence shall go with thee and then they saw the wonderful verse the end of verse 17 or in verse 17 the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing also that thou has spoken for thou has found grace in my sight and I know thee by name do you believe God knows you by name hmm you say son so taught through the Queen of England and when he goes in he doesn't bow and say your excellency your majesty says hi Elizabeth it'd be a bit nervous to do that but isn't it wonderful that God knows us by name I know the by that's what I want the Lord to do know me by name I know thee by name and he said Moses said I beseech thee show me thy glory verse 2 of chapter 34 says be ready in the morning and come up in the morning unto the Mount Sinai and present thyself to me there in the top of the Mount now this is a hazard in it he done that in the 32nd chapter what happened and while he was up there they fooled around they made a graven image they got drunk they got naked they did every crazy willful thing to disobey God and now God said now come up on the mountain again and verse 5 says the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord and the Lord passed by him and proclaimed the Lord the Lord merciful gracious long-suffering abundant in goodness and in truth so he's gone up the Mount with God look at verse 29 upon me look at verses 6 neighbors the Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth and thus 8 Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped in chapter 30 permit chapter 32 and verse 22 it says and Aaron said let not the anger of my Lord wax hot now he's talking there to Moses and now knows the people that they're set and they're full of mischief okay I'm coming back into this chapter now into a chapter 34 for this reason the Lord passed by what had he requested he'd request show me thy glory and now he's gone up a second time up on the mountain you know we we kind of look at that as we took a helicopter ride I would have stood on the nasca later instead of that he has to struggle up the mountain and I identify that with that word in the fourth chapter of Hebrews when it said that way to labor to enter into rest there's nothing comes easy in the Christian life everything is a wrestling everything is a striving we've got the world the flesh the devil against us and Moses here now is gone the second time onto the mountain if I remember right about 80 years of age you must have been pretty fit he doesn't say how long he stayed there how long it took the glory of the Lord to pass before him but the Lord was merciful and gracious I believe in this instance while there's no time factor given if all the glory of God went past him he could have been there for weeks I believe he was transfixed transfixed means motionless I believe he stood awed I believe he gazed at the majesty of God something that we've totally forgotten in our day the awful majesty of God as I said last week you should read at least once a week the fortieth chapter in Isaiah which tells you that God makes that made the stars he counts them all and he knows every one of them by name that the nations are as a drop in a bucket that he has all power and all authority you see how God is so small and we have such a small concept of God the world outside isn't in any way staggered by what we are or who we are the Lord passed by him you know if you put it into common vernacular I think Moses had a bit of a nerve to say to God show me thy glory boy if I'd taken a stick and divided the Red Sea I'd thought I'd seen all the glory I needed if I hit a rock and it splits open and it followed the nation wherever they went that's a look at the magic hey I did that remember what I did it that morning you're all thirsty and I did I could old me Moses but instead of that is old he bowed down and what what did he do he worship and you know what if ever you see the glory of God you'll worship he bowed down but Moses was alone Aaron wasn't with him the highest moments of your life will be when you're alone in worship and in adoration they'll surpass all the preaching ever heard unless you heard mine but apart from that we don't see the glory of God I've said you off when you tiptoe out of the sanctuary because you've been overwhelmed with the mercy and the glory and the majesty and the holiness of God people going to church dirty sing about him and go out dirty you can't do that if you see God he goes on a mountain he climbs to the height show me thy glory Lord I've seen your miracles show me yourself I want to get intimate with you that's what it means show me thy glory and the Lord pass by him and proclaim the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious I think all the history of Israel must have gone past him like you watch a film go when God said that to him remember my mercy I could have blotted you out with your transgressions I could destroy you and I made a golden calf instead I extended my mercy extended my mercy I'm well past 70 years of age people tell me sometimes I'm living on borrowed time the only time I bothered was the watch tonight because I didn't have one I borrowed time but anyhow living on borrowed time and there because with the unborrowed time we passed the safety line years ago we're heading for hell as quick as any nation on earth but if we saw the glory of God one Sunday in every Church in America we'd shake the king the country for God the next week everything else would wither everything else would perish all our values would change here he is on a mountaintop I looked up the seventh chapter don't look now the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and that second about the second verse where that marvelous young man the first martyr in the church possibly not more than 19 years of age Stephen and he says the God of Abraham appeared to offer the glory of God appeared to Abraham we're in a hellhole called Mesopotamia a place that was full of idolatry a muddled dung heap and yet God appears to a man there's no system that are no priest there are no altars and yet the god of glory unveiled himself to a man in a hellhole like that you know maybe the god of glory is appeared in some cells of those poor prisoners in Russia today more than in our life we're so busy we can't we haven't time to wait for him oh we say be filled with the Holy Ghost sure that's a command be filled with the spirit there's another command be still and know that I'm God they send the forty-second sound when they eat when the Seas are roaring and the mountains of falling paraphrased I guess again by Isaac Watts let mountains from their seats be hurled down to the deep sand buried their convulsions shake the solid earth our faith will never yield to fear but in a shaking world where everything is chaos everything that's orderly will become disorderly then God says be still and all the time God everybody else is going mad Christians today think if they knock on door still their fingers bleed and give out tracts until they're dropping in the shopping mall they please gone let me tell you I believe you can you could win a hundred souls to Jesus Christ every hour on the hour in the day and still disappoint him because that's service in the outer court God says Aaron and his sons shall minister unto me come on now I know you're not your heads and Sam right how much ministry have you done to the Lord today you said your prayers but it was requests wasn't it do this do that do the other again prayer is our preoccupation with our needs praise this preoccupation with our blessings worship is true a patient with God just God himself I put that in the back of my Bible I think I did anyhow but I brought the wrong Bible but it begins with my goal is God Himself not joy not pleased peace not even blessing but with thee my god nausea was confronted and he saw the glory of God and he peered appeared where in Mesopotamia again I says I prayed over this today Mesopotamia is about the most corrupt place on the earth it was full of idols it was full of immorality it was lawless it was godless and yet Almighty God comes to one man only one Saint maybe in a whole nation of a million people and he reveals himself to that one man you see why does reveal himself to me because you don't stay still that's why you give him a shopping list and get up and go out and your prayers are over I wish had some more details about this I could fill it in by imagination but I want Moses standing there and God the god of glory the god of the universe unveils his majesty and there's his glory in this man speechless why does he bow down to the earth because he can't stand there because he can't keep looking the glory is so great and he bowed himself to the earth and not only boughs himself - he worships and there's only one way you can worship and that is to worship God in spirit and in truth God is a spirit I'm a spirit my spirit must connect with God's Spirit most of our religion today in Christian centers is soulish it's not it's not spiritual it's solid that's right kids like to go to these rock concerts because it's solis it stirs the soul and they go out and sin and does all the devilish things they want to do there's no change that you can't glorify God you can't have a vision of the glory of God and turn around and be mean to your wife or children oh this is a marvelous Scripture but I've got to link it up with something else here go to the second where now it's second book of Corinthians now what I want to go second book of Corinthians chapter 3 I guess and true Corinthians 3:18 I think it is I'll get there in a minute now this is bringing it right down to earth where we live 2 Corinthians 3 and verse 18 but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed by the same ad images of glory even by the Spirit of the Lord now he's talking about us he's talking about the Corinthians that got lost in vanity and they drifted away from fundamental truths they were turning to other things but he says we all with open face Phillips translates that we without veils on our faces I didn't read the scripture I should have gone on there and read where Moses came down the Mount and his face so reflected the glory of God he had to wear a veil now in the 32nd chapter on he comes down the mountain his blood red with anger God is angry angry and he's angry because it in tune with God how often you get angry are you tune with the Holy Ghost when the Spirit of God is offended are you offended that you just go on buying and selling and eating and drinking and all the normal things that the man next door does I'm supposed to be a spiritual man I'm supposed to be in tune with the infinite I'm stable supposed to be regulated by the Holy Ghost not the traditions of my setup or denomination Moses stood there until the very radiance of God shone on him remember the Mount of Transfiguration well the Mount of Transfiguration was not Jesus reflecting the glory of the Father it was the inherent qualities of Jesus Christ it wasn't a spotlight from heaven it was a holiness and purity of God in him being God that flashed out that I noticed this I never fell down and worshiped him they fell down and worshiped him at the beginning of the revelation because he was a different Christ in one sense he'd accomplished his mission he'd led captivity captive given gifts unto men II take the hinges off the gates of Hell he destroyed the part of the devil do you think the church will ever enter into that I hear people saying Lord rebuke the devil he rebuked him 2000 years ago come on why don't we enter into what he did there's only one reason that the world is going to hell tonight that is the unbelief of the judge and you'll now use your light we do not believe God it's not the sinners that don't believe him we don't believe him we have a partial belief not a full belief but when they saw Moses come down from the mat they couldn't gaze on him I'm going to say I have a poem I had it somewhere I've got part of it here written by Freda Hanbury Allen which I think explains the thing very beautifully she's talking about you and I going into the holy place not being in the outer court not going into the holy place but really going into the Holy of Holies that's the only place where God came in the outer court that was daylight in the holy place in the Holy of Holies or in the holy place there was candle light assemblance candlestick in the Holy of Holies there was no light it was pitch black and unless as she kind of glory came there was no light you know when men put Jesus Christ to death they put out the light of the world the only light in the world tonight is the word of God thy word is a lamp to my feet that's to guide me in what to do and the light to my path that to me is the light is the word of God the lamp to my feet is the word of God and the lamp to me is the word of prophecy that tells me not just what to do but where to go and the only light in the world tonight is the Word of God plus the glory that's reflected in your personality in mine Romans 12:1 and 2 says present your body a living sacrifice unto God and be not conformed to this world although JB Phillips puts it so well don't let this will press you into its mold come on is it doing that the style of clothes you wear the style of life you live is the world system pressing me into its mold do you feel unhappy if you go to church and um to design a dress on all the ladies shoes is the world pressing us almost unconsciously into its mold be not conformed but be transformed it's the same word used of Jesus be transfigured be transfigured by the renewing of your mind having the very mind of God Himself given to us tree to hand round Helen Allen says this within the veil be this beloved thy portion within the secret of thy Lord to dwell beholding him until thy face is glory thy life is love thy lips Aspray Shoto within the veil for only without gaze dust upon the matchless beauty of his face canst thou become a living revelation of his great heart of love his untold grace within the veil is fragrance poured upon thee remember the woman that wash the feet of Jesus with tears and then put that wonderful ointment on then dried his feet with a hair of a head what happened the fragrance she poured out on him came back on her do you know why you find prayer so dry because you don't worship you know why you come out of the place of prayer the same as you went in because you don't gaze on these wholeness on his majesty on his sufficiency on his glory and then having tasted something of the other world you come back into this world with the radiance that's totally and understandable to the world be not conformed be transformed within the veil that his fragrance poured upon thee without the veil that fragrance shed abroad within the veil is hand shalt tune the music which sounds on earth the praises of thy God within the veil that I stood it deeply anchored thou walkest calm another world of drive within the veil by soul with him United to live on earth the resurrection life now that's right we should be living now not after we die and shuffle off this mortal coil if you want to be Shakespearean but even now I should be not I'm going to reign with him I should be reign if I'm not reigning with him then the world's reigning in me either I have total dominion by the grace of God over the world the flesh the devil all the picture is reversed I think there's a very wonderful verse here we all with open face we don't have to veil our faces do we I've caught it too before that little daughter 9 year old daughter of the man who preached that Hellfire sermon that still preaches sinners in the hands of an angry god Jonathan Edwards and his little nine-year-old daughter says people mock my daddy's so gravel-voiced he's so serious when he preaches rogue God in him what is the most serious to preaching the gospel Paul says more than once to Timothy be so but the soul of his soul at the end of the world is coming dear lord if it was coming 2,000 years ago where are we tonight is the church sober go down the road and see him and the other in the family circle outside the church they be playing ping pong and fooling as though the world's going to heaven I said before if you take the view of the politicians mister mr. president I'm glad he's getting better he says there's a holocaust coming up because fire is going to come and destroy the nation but supposing you don't believe what the politicians say the word of god says Armageddon is coming and a system is going to come to destroy a third of the world's population that should make us a nightmare if he'd any gumption at all if it reflects 'no spirituals we think we are both at last days and every church in town would have a prayer meeting 24 hours a day at least a room in the church if I ever get into a fellowship now have control of it there'll be a there'll be a room up in 24 hours a day and they'll expect you to keep up that 24 I pride that out does the devil go to sleep you go to bed tonight it happens to be Friday night folk don't have to work tomorrow they'll be at the hell holes the dung houses till 12:00 1:00 to 3:00 in the morning many of them don't start till about 2:00 or 3:00 they go to these nightclubs nightspots the church doesn't the church every Church nearly in town will be locked up tonight by about 10 o'clock if the defied department did that we'd raise hell about it wouldn't we if the hospitals did that we'd be disgusted you can't do it I think I told you last week two men came into my office and the first thing they said is anybody real you remember that year we got you were there you're one of them I'll put you on the spot Jacob but anyhow he doesn't mind I know him I straighten him out every day but he's twisted the next day but anyhow just like Jacob just like Jacob in the scriptures no he's really coming on I love this man very very much he's my new neighbor and if he doesn't buy that house you're in trouble but they asked the question the other brother I think with you a secret is anybody real I change that a night sure I break up my question is does anybody care do we really care the world is going to hell do we want to go on Sunday and be nice and sweet and have a nice little time and get a hug and a kiss and then go out to a perishing world exactly the same you can't do that if your gates on these holiness the more you cease holiness the more you see corruption in the world you mother see you more you see its integrity the more you see of the deception and falseness of the systems that we live in the church as well as outside of the church we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord yard changed from image from glory to glory or it say it says emphasize that's a good Bible to read reflecting the glory of God into the same age image will be transformed from glory to glory so I showed you quickly there the glory of Moses he had to drape his face because people couldn't bear to see the reflecting majesty of God in him and I'm supposed to live reflecting we beholding in a mirror you can't look on God and so you have to hold a mirror and seem that way we see his glory in the Word of God the more you know of the Word of God the more you know his Majesty the more you'll know these glory look at Acts chapter 3 for a minute or two here what I read of this book the more trouble they get sorry it's Acts chapter 4 Acts chapter for those 13 now when they saw the boldness now they say when they saw the coldness he says in the same chapter I guess how these Christians love one another now they see how these Christians shove one another hmm verse 13 says now when they saw the ballers who are they well look up the chapter a bit further back verse 5 it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers they were the rulers and the elders and the scribe anise the high priests and care force another high priests and that's illegal anyhow the Jews weren't allowed to have two high priests and they had them and John and Alexander and as many as word of the king of the high priests were gathered together in Jerusalem now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John they conceived that they perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men and they took knowledge of them that the glory of Jesus Christ was shining in them the glory of Jesus shining in Moses upon a mountain is by himself these men are in a hellhole these men have been to prison and yet the glory of Jesus Christ is there though they have a prison sentence hanging over them you don't need ideal situations to get the glory of Jesus Christ all you need to do is to be in his will now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John they perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men isn't that something just imagine those men in the room did another PhD between them didn't have a bank account between them unlearned and the unusual unwanted but boy before long the world knew they were around they know backing company they know bank accounts no newsletters not terrible don't mention that please round here but anyhow and we all get to have want to be wonderful not getting a junk mail from all these big evangelist you know tell the evangelist friend to get to when you get to heaven very clearly you know the streets are made of gold they'll be digging the streets up I'll be looking for you who see if you either the paradox this book if you want to go up go down if you want to gain throw everything you have away lose your life you'll find it keep your life you'll lose it if you are send you'll be humiliated if you're humble yourself you'll be exalted if you want to be of somebody be a nobody so foolish isn't it you better not your header because you know it's true anyhow when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and per say that they were unlearned and ignorant man they took knowledge of that gets under my skin it gets in my heart they took knowledge of them go back and see why they should be so happy verse 1 they spake to the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them now you've got the whole load on your back the priests were captain of the temple the Sadducees and then over in verse five you have the rulers and the scribe verse six anise the high priest in Karis and John and Alexander and many as over the kindred of the high priest they were gathered together and when they have set them in the niche fancy facing that gang how would you feel if you rush it into the high court yes all the big shots there and you knew that their life was hanging on a thread would we have boldness when they saw the boldness of Peter and John those three says they lay them their hands on them and put them in hold for the next day for it was even tied how be many of them which heard the word believe glory to God isn't that preaching that when you lock the preachers up the revival still goes if your revival isn't working in your church get the cups to it sheriff to come and arrest the preacher stick him in jail and see if he comes round you know the tragic thing about this today is the world can put up with us it could put up with the early church the early church was going that way the world was going that now we're running side by side and God knows nobody knows there's no line of demarcation but as greed years the world as fashionable as well we want to place in the Sun without jealousy or envy our pride these men were destitute of all that why because they gazed on the risen Christ of God and even though they've been in jail for days it didn't brush-off they couldn't be intimidated didn't matter what you said to them they'd seen Jesus an ungodly men said there's only one reason why these men are like this they like their master we couldn't intimidate their master we tried to threaten them we tried to destroy him we pushed him over the edge I tried to push him over the edge of the cliff and he was as calm as could be we got men to scream for his death and he was still the Prince of Peace he was still Placid and these men have the same kind of spirit in them they didn't just take notice of them look what it says in the middle of verse 13 they marveled they marveled they were astonished they were dumbfounded they were saying under their breath what in God's name is a secret of these men they're no better than when we put them in jail the hair hasn't changed a different color they're not at six inches taller they don't look stronger they had a living intimate relationship with the risen son of God that's why preachers argue about what happened in the upper room no argument about it common sense once it says at the end of Luke where it says that when they saw Jesus risen what did they do they went roaring back to the temple filled with eggs as they filled with joy do you think they stopped I think that ten days that they waited the last ten days in the upper room was a most ecstatic meeting that ever been in the history of the world I believe it exceeded the joy of Moses the Rope got all Israel to sing the horse and his rider hottie cast into the sea they knew the devil's power was broken they seen Jesus going up he says I got there to my father when I get there I'll make perfect your imperfect prey I think in the upper room they were saying he's there he's there at the right hand of the Father if we just pray he'll just communicate with a father he said I go to prepare a place for you he's got angels busy getting your mansion ready so why worry they'd lost all fear of men they'd lost all fear of death they'd lost all fear of consequences they lived in this world as though that already in the next world well is now what it's about what do you say thy kingdom come thy will be done not on earth inner thigh Ameth I'm of the earth worth it and the kingdom of God can start now that's where it starts not right after I die I read the other day somewhere about they buried a man or they say they buried a man yesterday our song so died yesterday and they buried him and somebody who knew him said he died 45 years ago he's been no good for 45 years he wasted his life are you dead are you alive tonight if they bury you tomorrow would you say well that man's already been dead about three years now there are two classes of people in the world not rich and poor not black and white not bottom slaves and freemen just two kinds those who are dead in sin and those who are dead to sin there's no other cloud but either dead in trespasses and in sin or that miracle is taking place in us which had taken place in some of these men in fact all of them it says in Ephesians 2 doesn't the first verse you what you did in time past time past some things happen in time pass you water got into the prince of this world the power of this world the Prince of the power of the air and yet at the end of that very very very same chapter it says here the habitation of God you can't show me a miracle in the world greater than that a man is the habitation of fear the habitation of sins bondage to habits and God gets Halloween kicks the devil out of his life and fills him with God you know if we gazed every day on the majesty of the risen son of God you'd never backslide you'll never be afraid you never get depressed after all everything's going our way because we've gone his way they took knowledge of they marveled at that oh Lord I'm waiting for us some Sunday I'm expecting the glory of God to come we'll walk out of the sanctuary with a different attitude entirely a revolutionized personality a consciousness that even now with two feet on earth I can be in heavenly places in Christ Jesus i that's what paul says we're seated with him and that's where these disciples were I went to a little Bible College I've told you with 35 students no girls they're too distracting both before and after marriage but anyhow 35 young men and I sat here there's a picture of a saintly man here at one time president of the Methodist Church and president of the college before I get there his name was Thomas cook he wrote a very fine book on holiness which is still printed these days I used to look up at that when I get when I couldn't answer questions it didn't help me at all but he had a marvelous saintly face and he used to go round the village churches and one day a little girl went the old-fashioned way adios have a butcher's shop where all this old was meat you won't remember those days you go to supermarkets you see half a cow here and half a pig there and other pigs outside but anyhow then you saw the butcher's meat and this little girl was Restless and the butcher said now Mary come on you're usually so quiet now don't step out of line there but but what oh she said where being a visitor at the manse as they call the pastor's house having a visitor at the man's history well don't you have visitors almost every week yes what's the difference this week oh they've taken the furniture out on the lawn they've been beating it and beating the mat and the little girl was 14 and she said you know sir they're making such a fuss as we say in England getting excited so much you think Jesus himself was coming and the butcher laughed and said well Annie that's a nice little thing to say next week she went to the butchers and he said well Annie how are you she said he's been who's been I told you last week they were making such a commotion at the house would think Jesus was come well he came his name is Thomas cook in that night the same man was going on a ship off the west coast of Africa they pulled out from Spain and gone down the coast there and the first night he was out he went through the saloon where men were drinking and smoking and playing cards and suddenly everybody grabs the cards and put them under the table ah did you notice that yeah sure did I been on this trip of many times what happened everybody grab their cards stuck the pipes underneath why did they do it one man said well could you do anything less with a face like that that came through the saloon he had a face like the Prince of Peace there was engraved on him there was a majesty about him there's something in his walk something in his talk something in his actions and everybody took notice of him that he lived with Jesus he did because he spent hours every day in the presence of Jesus they took knowledge of them within the veil is fragrance poured upon thee without the veil that fragrance shed abroad abroad within the veil is hand shall tune the music which sounds on earth the praises of thy God it's something wrong I think I think you said today when you're at the Vanity Fair the other day Christian Booksellers Association which is two doors from Babylon in it something when you have Christians live with Doug's little coats on down Jesus Saves and shirt buttons that have Jesus and others rotten stuff the man said well it's the only testimony some people have why not get them saved that's only testimony they have boy if your button comes off is anybody seen my testimony around here I'll be terrible the whole thing will babble on their little stuffed dogs with Jesus on them that's degrading its babbling as far as I'm concerned do we have to wear a badge a sign that the Living Christ is in us isn't there a dignity about our language about our attitude I don't care if you're a deacon or a beacon what in the world you are I won't ask your friend what kind of a person you are I'll slip up to the back door when you're away and ask your wife how you live do you get wild you get angry do you get distressed or do you live as calmly as Jesus would under those circumstances after all you guys know the lights to shine in the world except you and I reflecting as in an error do you know how to get an arrow so it won't work snare it with grease you don't have put an inch thick just smear it with it with your hand that always has oil on it and the middle immediately disfigures a reflection and if there's something in your life of bitterness and strife and envy or some other thing the image will be marred the image of God that should be nice restored by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and by this biding Spirit of the Holy Ghost I see God only has one class for his people only one of that's holiness I didn't write it I like that verse in math upon me in Hebrews where it says that we we we we on this earth while we're here as the hymn writer says in this body pent or tied up we why we're here on earth are supposed to be as holy as Jesus Christ was when he was on earth he didn't die to leave us model cripples leaping around or staggering and falling and stumbling the ordinary course of the Kris life is victory from morning your time you get out to the time you go to bed it isn't that we can't sin it's that we don't wonder sin it's not impossible to sin it's possible not to sin there's a big difference I want Jesus Christ expects that you and I to be little Christ's why we're here in this world reflecting the model and spiritual glory of God in the face and not just our physical face but in our display to other people as they read us as they see us we don't need veils on our faces we don't have enough glory but it should be that the glory of God is reflected in our demeanor in our actions in our attitudes in our personality there's nothing more revolutionary than the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ made realness putting to death the old man and putting on the new man and then meaning dwelt by the Spirit of God that's not that's not super that's the normal Christian life again it's not impossible to sin it's possible not to sin what a difference when Moses was there in the presence of God and God was angry he came down livid with anger so much so that he threw the stones down and he broke the Ten Commandments but in the next chapter it's altogether different he's a different Moses when he comes down this time his face isn't blood red with anger his face is radiating a holy God the reflection of eternities in the face of the man and the people are speechless at him no wonder you know if we ever get into the fullness of the blessing then the neighbors will wonder what in the world is wrong with us I think about half a dozen going down a dark street when that the street would light up it's a bit of an exaggeration but I'm hoping it will work anyhow it should be that we change the atmosphere in any place that we go to the Quakers used to say that you remember that dear brother Dale used to say a man is his own atmosphere if you're on fire for God you can go into a frozen atmosphere and it will change like that if your Holi the atmosphere will change you send some waves through that audience because they know the holiness of God is there and it doesn't reflect on me it reflects on him not me no we don't have to put those on our faces he should be the normal reaction of our lives that the grace of God is in his honest to its fullness that everybody knows every time they see us there's an evenness you know you see some people one day the VAS mile like this excuse me not quite as big but anyhow it's from here to here nearly another day you see it morning and you think they're in morning if it's really true what we sang tonight my sin oh the Bliss of this glorious thought he doesn't have dominion over me I have it under my feet by the grace of God all the vain things that charm me most have gone away that vain things charm me most and help me least he should be that when we go into an atmosphere that people welcome us not but our stationing life not the way wealthy or brilliant because the grace of God is there and they know that we're people of sound speech not critical speech not unkind speech but holy speech they took knowledge of them the hierarchy the bigshots religious leaders the other leaders and these little nobodies come up and they take notice of them and so you don't see men like this every day what's the quality of them not so quality of their living and so he says they've been with Jesus just one thing I remember when we live just outside of Manchester that's a place to live it's one of the darkest towns in England one of the wettest it seems to rain every day and I'd been visiting and boy it was a pretty miserable day I was pretty wet I saw a bus coming and I flagged the fellow down and when I got in oh mercy it was overbearing with perfume it was just fantastic and then a lady put up her money the fella goes down the middle corridor of the bus and you'd hand him your money and this lady raised her hand and she had a red car found a blue thing like this and she gave her money and as she did I suddenly realized you know some of you guys have some stuff called English leather and it's made at the factory where the bus started and those women had been in that atmosphere all the day and just as you go home where have you been I was on the plane and they were all smoking and it penetrates your clothes these women had been in that atmosphere they hadn't taught it on but the clothing absorbed it and they were all sitting there in the bus and when I got out of that dirty atmosphere in Manchester which is a dull atmosphere and stepped in it was a fragrance of the garden they didn't shout they didn't say look it spoke for itself it should be the grace of Jesus Christ the gentleness and meekness of the Lord Jesus Christ I don't know maybe our will David be here next week Paul well you'll have a good preacher one of my sons may be hidden him preaching so I'll get the night off I won't get paid but that's alright but David always reminds me of that scripture the gentleness and meekness of Jesus Christ he was the most nervous boy thinking I'd ever seen in my life till the Lord got hold of him and saved him and fill him with a spirit now he's called pastoring a church of 1,600 every Sunday morning another 600 in Sunday school running at the same time God has used him around the world he's on a trip round now I say that not to boast with my son but there's nothing nothing boasting about it I get but because if you think it couldn't happen to me it can listen it's not what you can bring to God that matters it's what God can bring to you you've got to be a clean vessel a purge vessel you're not wanting to be somebody and hang your hat up with a great preachers I'll get some society behind your name but just totally glorify him and so I want to say sit in your presence until the very fragrance of eternity comes into my being into my thinking into my acting into my talking into my demeanor just like the fragrance got into the clothing of those women well what's it all got to do with praying well if you see the glory of a God like that in knowledge Majesty you have more confidence in prayer at least you should I do I think that bunch of failures they almost all let Jesus down and now they're standing up against you see the greatest miracle was not Peter and John healing the crippled of the gate of the temple it's a miracle in John and Peter Peter that run away from the finger of a girl and now he stands up against the big high hierarchy bit the Big Shot and he points the finger and says you crucified the Lord of glory but him out God raised up come on Jesus has nothing else to do he's done everything he can for the church it's just that we have to enter in and we enter in by humility we enter in by recognizing again our weakness and yet His Majesty what the church has had up to this point doesn't shake the world and if we go on like this it'll take a thousand years to get the world turned round and we won't do it then because we're working on the same old formula we have to behold is glory we have to behold as Majesty we have to be holding a risen in all his glorious power and then this let this be absorbed in our lives that people take knowledge of us not by what we dress or the car we drive but they take knowledge of us we've been with Jesus I get bored to death when I mean with places no matter how nice and smart they are how big the house is if the conversations about Jesus it's wasting time when we travel I don't travel much I travel so and when we go every time we go it's anim astern II even if it isn't a Cadillac you have to make the best of it and you can sing and praise and magnify the Lord command there's not much time left I haven't said afraid I intended to say it the other night any of you that how many of you there the night I preached on Damon better you weren't there that was a night the glory came not because you weren't there I preached on the judgement seat the other night how many were there some of you oh good wasn't a gracious meeting I preached that a hundred times but never with as much joy in anointing I think as that night but one thing I forgot to say there be no maturing after we die I believe as a tree falls it lies I don't think a million years in eternity we make a bit of difference to your standing there or your maturity all the maturity is here and that's a very serious thing there's not much time for many of us any of us really and to think that between here and there that once the thread of life snaps I'm not going to maturity God has given me all I need for maturity in this book and no man however told you also ever strongly whatsoever great he was in the kingdom of God ever had more than I have in this book he just absorbed more of it he dwelt on it more he meditated on it Moses could have run away oh I've seen the glory of God he stays there he isn't caring what's happening or if they're making another golden calf or Gettys and I'm absorbed with God's glory with God's Majesty with God's beauty and if you say God like that you won't care a hill of beans if somebody leaves you out of some special function they have they'd invite you to a wedding and invite you somewhere else it won't make a bit of difference the more I'm absorbed in him the less I care about the things around of that I want to be turn as he conscious I want to be God conscious I'm going to eternity not for the weekend if you are well go but no I'm not going with you I'm going into his eternal presence forever so what if I suffer a little what if I'm not liked people don't like my preaching I don't like your free say shake hands I don't like it either you won't get one over me saying that it could be a lot better maybe it could be worse to hook come on we're eternity bound people are we absorbing all there is in the risen Christ of God is your rife reflecting his pieces pieces joy his love it's all there to be absorbed by us my peace I live it not peace my peace joy nor my joy no man taketh it from you and take everything else take the shirt off your back take the money out of your pocket take your friend you can't take your joy joy he says George I no man taketh it from you read the sixteenth chapter of John it's his joy the joy that dominates in his life under pressure when they threatened him when they would have killed it but he was dominated by joy by piece and I leave you my peace by joy and his joy was doing the will of the Father this is his legacy to his disciples there any King diasporic Jesus he didn't have any houses he could share didn't have any horses to leave them he didn't have any money he says I give you my peace I give you my joy these are worth a million million times the other things you have and if I'm living in less than that I'm not living where God wants me if I'm not living there I won't reflect his glory I won't reflect his beauty oh yes and why we're rejoicing there's a world outside perishing the more I see him the more I'll hate sin the more I see of him the more I long that what Jesus died for will be accomplished in my generation has been accomplished in any other you've got the greatest chance in the world to make history and you'll only do it when you're cleansed and fill with the Spirit of God we're going to pray if you wish to go you're free to go as we kneel to pray we leave the service open-ended because so often we've only find a watch I borrowed I don't know who whose watch was it done I'll put your hands up whose watch was this son brother catch no pass it over to him please thank you so much it didn't help me too much but anything here let's pray we're praying for revival in this community as well as other places we're praying for revival in your church I felt it was real blessing down there that what I call it Rose Heights Church of God there's a lovely spirit a very precious man there I learned to love him in the few nights I was there and ask you to pray for that church as well that the glory will come I don't go where the fire falls it but it must fall somewhere so feel free if you're not in the spirit if you say my life doesn't reflect the glory of Jesus well cough out what's wrong is it pride is it envy what is it stubbornness jealousy what is it don't say bless me Lord kill this thing in me go to the cross and die and get resurrection life so now we're going to pray and as I say you'll feel to leave anytime you like give me a chaplain thanks Jay you you

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Length: 57min 48sec (3468 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 15 2014